Hi,

we are still on track in our 0.94 development cycle [1]. The release is three weeks away from now, we plan to release the 28th of September!

We have been entering string freeze now, which means: "No string changes may be made without confirmation from the localization team and notification to the release team" [2]. This freeze is meant to help the translators finish their work and to not provide them with a moving target. Now is the time we will see a lot of commits from our great translators community, Activity developers please watch out for those and do make releases to make that work available.

There have been one interesting string change in the last week: there are two entries in the sugar.po that translate the same string ('Remove') but where the context is different. This has been marked now using pgettext. Chris has pulled that change to Pootle and all langs sugar.po have been refreshed. An example can be seen at [3][4]. Please give feedback if that addition was helpful to do a better translation or if anything can be improved.

Manuel is currently working on polishing up the tabbing experience in Browse. There is one string change and a significant UI change [5]. Both need to be discussed following the exception process [6].

So what's left to be done besides translating?

Right, bug fixing and testing!

I have been listing Features and changes on the pre-release-notes [7] which should give a good sense of the bigger changes that needs testing. General functionality testing like (networking, saving etc) are of course welcome. I will add a list as well of the bugs we fixed so potential regressions in those areas can be identified. Watch out for more details here. There are instructions on the page as well how to test and where to file bugs.

Three more weeks to go, let's make this a rock-solid, innovative and fun-to-use release.

Regards,
   Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Roadmap#Schedule
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#String_Freeze
[3] Remove - clipboard http://translate.sugarlabs.org/es/glucose/sugar.po?item=247&view_mode=translate [4] Remove - volume http://translate.sugarlabs.org/es/glucose/sugar.po?item=369&view_mode=translate [5] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-September/033229.html [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#UI_Freeze and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#String_Freeze
[7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Notes
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